The ResCarta Indexer creates an Apache™ Lucene™ index of the ResCarta objects in your collections. Apache Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java; it's a technology suitable for nearly any application requiring full-text search capabilities, particularly those which are cross-platform. The ResCarta Indexer uses simple entry of data locations to create this powerful index, which allows for high-speed access to the metadata and word data contained within your ResCarta collections (database).

Any changes you make to your collections (using the ResCarta Collections Manager) requires that a new index be built so that ResCartaWeb can accurately search the collection.